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Word: call (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dear Baby Girl." Perón knew teenage girls by the thousands; in the hope of building political support, he had created a Union of High School Students (U.E.S.) and turned over to its girls' division the 124-acre presidential estate at Olivos, a Buenos Aires suburb. "Just call me Pocho," Perón told the girls, and he came often to watch the basketball, skating and sailboat racing, or to award wallets containing 500-peso notes to graduates of the classes in dancing, gymnastics and drama. On one such occasion, he met green-eyed Nelly, a janitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Daddykins & Nelly | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

...normal Lead I, a short, heavy horizontal line shows the resting heart. The short downstroke, which doctors call the "Q" wave, is formed as the ventricles begin to contract to pump blood out. The major part of the current flow is the high, thin upstroke of the "R" wave; the thin downstroke is simply return to the base line. Then follows the heavy, hump-shaped "T" wave that marks the repolarization of the muscle surface; some subjects also show a short dip called "S" (not pictured here) before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Medicine, Oct. 10, 1955 | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

...seem to be in nature two opposing streams-the tendency toward organization and goal-seeking, and the tendency toward chance and randomness. The upward purposeful thrust of life, which continually opposes the downward drag of matter, is evidence, I think, that in nature there is something that we may call-to name what can never be put into words-a Principle of Organization. Not only does lift man ever higher but it provides three great essentials for his religion-: brings order out of randomness, spirit out of matter, and personality out of neutral and impersonal stuff. This Principle of Organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: An Attribute of God | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

...spins a turbine at 6,000 r.p.m., and the power developed (25 h.p.) provides electrical current for the airplane's radio. It also keeps pressure in the hydraulic system that works the controls and landing gear. With the little turbine spinning outside the fuselage the pilot can call for help and try an emergency landing as if he were in an old-style airplane with hand-worked controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pilot's Helper | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

There are too many businessmen, said Randall before the 81st annual meeting of the American Bankers Association, who "boast of free enterprise" while they "sabotage the competitive system." The "man who makes the discreet telephone call to a competitor before he puts in the new price is asking for the nationalization, the socialization that he so abhors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: After the Third Highball | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

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